The club that paid Negreira is a toxic asset

At this time ought to be a day to speak about soccer. How the staff introduced its most solvent aspect of the season in opposition to Actual Sociedad, which was coming off a streak of victories that has returned the San Sebastián staff to its trajectory of current years underneath the steerage of Pellegrino Matarazzo. My good friend Patxi, a professional Txuri-urdin, will likely be comfortable regardless of Saturday’s defeat: La Actual is wanting into Europe. They’ve been creating an enormous staff soccer proposal for years, and so they appear to have discovered the best way after struggling the blow of dropping their two most proficient footballers, each shining within the Premier.

We performed an accurate recreation. Generally with shine on the toes of Güler and Vinicius. The Brazilian is recovering his finest model, mercilessly torturing the rival right-backs, incapable of stopping him. I will not dwell on the penalties. The VAR, as Laporta implies, alters the competitors, however not as he suggests. Mediapro’s VAR denatures soccer. Regardless of its preliminary definition (“appropriate manifest errors”), the satan has corrupted semantics and the two-headed monster Tebas-Louzán has finished the identical with cleanliness and fairness. The VAR is right now an instrument of manipulation within the palms of the CTA, protected by a supposed and non-existent technological neutrality.

What’s a manifest error? On Saturday there have been none. Hernández Maeso, together with his face as a great individual, apparently oblivious to the systemic corruption of the CTA, whistled what he noticed. And anybody who has watched soccer and has a modicum of decency (which Antonio Fresas lacks, for instance) would have whistled the identical factor. If as a substitute of Vini, Aramburu had made a annoyed sort out on Lamine after having been hit, I’d have referred to as a penalty. It’s honest, with little or a lot contact. The striker going through the goalkeeper and with every thing in his favor to attain a objective ball. Penalty. Solely Lama and Carlos Martínez may be scandalized, for non-football causes, as representatives of probably the most soiled and shady points of soccer within the media.

We will affirm Lama’s spiteful anti-Madridism for not having managed to be influential in Florentino’s Actual Madrid. We will suspect every thing about Martínez. It was canceled within the final contract for LaLiga’s tv rights. And but, there it stays. Martínez is aware of an excessive amount of. The printed of matches is without doubt one of the important gears to govern the competitors. Within the VOR room they comprehend it, and in Moggigate it was confirmed by justice. It is nothing new.

Martínez’s feedback on Vinicius on Saturday can be a sudden dismissal if his bosses and himself weren’t a part of the scheme. We had by no means heard such feedback from him referring to a footballer. It needed to be with Vini, after all. I’ve a principle concerning the character: whereas Robinson was alive he by no means dared to take action a lot. The previous soccer participant contradicted him on numerous events and indirectly compensated for his partiality in stay broadcasts, which is now plain. He has develop into a hooligan, maybe as a result of he has the electrical energy paid for the remaining and since he does not thoughts pushing Actual Madrid followers in the direction of IPTVs. His commentators are Julio Maldonado, a meek follower being profitable in his terminal section, amortized as a “pupil of soccer”, and Álvaro Benito, a former footballer clever sufficient to appreciate what is going on, who doesn’t discover it value arguing with Martínez on the air as a result of he makes an excellent residing from TV.

The icing on the cake final week was supplied by Laporta. The joke of complaining concerning the refereeing, utilizing the membership to concern an aberrant assertion in the course of the election marketing campaign may be very humorous. Whole absence of disgrace. The top of impudence, after being the one who quadrupled the funds to Negreira in 2003, giving rise to the corruption of the arbitration group that Núñez established lengthy earlier than.

Let’s put just a little perspective: elections are approaching. Laporta has based mostly his technique for re-election on sporting successes, whereas the debt eats up the membership and the curiosity on loans grows greater than money era. The completion of the stadium is postponed. In 4 days, Laporta has renewed his vows with Tebas, withdrawing assist for Miguel Galán’s lawsuit paid for by Barcelona itself, he has resigned from the Tremendous League and signed up for the ECF, searching for highly effective mates who will enable him to proceed breaking all the foundations, signing with out cash, registering with out complying. Crime The customized.

In the meantime, 4-0 on the Metropolitano within the Cup. Tragedy. With out sporting successes, Laporta’s face more and more resembles that of Dorian Grey seeing his decline within the mirror. The assertion is a defensive countermeasure in order that nobody asks him what he doesn’t wish to reply. He must proceed presiding over Barcelona. What was I going to stay on? How are you going to go away the membership with the expectation of creating huge cash when it is your flip to promote it? Figuring out the character, inform me how a lot you’d guess that he’ll strive every thing in his energy with the membership’s cash to succeed in the Cup remaining. Let’s pray.

On the backside of the assertion, along with the simple electoralism that works while you deal with sheep, we as soon as once more discover the endearing victimhood to which we’re accustomed. We speak about “greater than a membership”, mates: deep within the historical past of Catalonia, victimhood has served as a typical thread to weave a collective id marked by perceptions of perpetual grievance. Leaders like good outdated Joan, an independentist, the peak of virtues and a significant instance for younger individuals, have instrumentalized Barça to amplify this victimhood, projecting supposed persecutions onto an all-powerful enemy who, nevertheless, gained extra European competitions than leagues through the Negreirato.

Presenting your self as a sufferer, being the protagonist of the Negreira Case and the creator of the funds of 8.4 million euros to the vice chairman of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) is just a medical pathology. The disbursements, channeled by way of firms, lacked formal contracts or verifiable reviews. The UCO tracked money withdrawals exceeding 400,000 euros and bearer checks that point out the intention of concealment. The membership admitted to the Treasury that these funds have been “mere liberalities,” assuming fines, whereas Negreira threatened in burofaxes from 2018 and 2019 to reveal irregularities if they didn’t proceed paying him. You already know the story of the contract with Mundo Deportivo financed by Barça that nearly ensures that Negreira continued to earn cash. Victims…

The statements of the previous presidents earlier than Choose Alejandra Gil supply a number of inconsistencies that underline how the membership prioritizes narrative over transparency. Sandro Rosell attributed the reviews to Negreira Sr., whereas Josep Maria Bartomeu restricted them to the son. Joan Laporta denied figuring out Negreira regardless of a 2003 video displaying a cordial greeting, and said that the funds went by way of compliance, contradicting his personal 2009 place on hiring former referees. These discrepancies, unsuccessfully cast at a dinner of former presidents to unify tales, not solely expose lies (comparable to that of Albert Soler when he omitted data from the Treasury) but in addition reinforce the usage of Barça as an ideological protect, uniting the followers in opposition to a supposed “sociological Madridism.” I invite you to delve deeper into the sequence of articles by Sergio Yebra in La Galerna.

Along with the electoral concern, behind these maneuvers lies a calculated technique of denial. There now we have Miguel Galán and different backed culé influencers, who go for selective ignorance, calling the case a “Madrid hoax” and directing public opinion in the direction of a conviction for unfair administration that they perceive would take away the specter of relegation and the withdrawal of titles. It will not be like that. To the remainder of the world, a victimhood that ignores the invoices, the “correction index”, the arbitration stability, and that classifies judicial proof as mere fabrications to protect the ideological narrative appears inconceivable. FIFA has already taken be aware. UEFA can do it at any time.

Each organizations have greater than justified causes and ample data to intervene ex officio. The deterioration of the Spanish competitions, the opacity of LaLiga’s “sponsorships”, the lurches of the CTA searching for a legitimacy that they won’t have till they cease ignoring the Negreirato (what else they’ve hidden…) and the very low stage of arbitration flip LaLiga right into a poisonous asset. A dangerous funding completely incompatible with UEFA’s aims in its negotiations with Actual Madrid.

FIFA has already taken be aware. UEFA can do it at any time

Within the Calciopoli case, Juventus was relegated for influencing arbitration appointments with out direct funds however with an opacity an identical to Negreirato. Corrupt govt Luciano Moggi was sentenced to jail and banned for all times from football-related costs. The case led to revocation of titles and administrative demotion. The Italian Federation and UEFA acted collectively and rapidly to revive cleanliness to soccer for a a lot much less severe case than the funds to Negreira. The RFEF insists on turning the web page and placing the concentrate on prison justice, as soon as its work of masking up sports activities crime and collaborating in its prescription has ended, to the derision and disgrace of Spanish soccer. It is all very unlucky. The prison process will take time, however FIFA and UEFA have short-term pursuits which are incompatible with this circus.

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